This collection houses clippings, publications, class materials, and other items documenting Dozier Cade's research into McCarthyism and his work as an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Northwestern University from 1941 to 1955. Also included are a variety of materials that Cade accumulated while writing his doctoral dissertation, "A critical analysis of the role of American daily newspapers in the current encroachment by government and society on freedom of expression in the United States" (1954).